For years, clock speed ruled the roost. It was the one metric you could point to, devoid of context, to say one component was "faster" than another. It's literally right there in the name. Clock speed ...

AMD's new processor has eight cores and 64MB of 3D V-cache, just like 9800X3D, but it also has a significantly faster clock ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. There are a lot of components to pick out when you're building a PC, but one of the most important elements of gaming and digital rendering ...

Once upon a time, not overclocking your CPU meant you were missing out on a major free performance boost. A smidge of manual tweaking and a bigger cooler would have yielded you a significantly faster ...

For the better part of two decades, the war for PC dominance was simple. It was a brutal, head-to-head arms race fought on a single front: clock speed. From the days of the Pentium 4 and the Athlon XP ...